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ethanpil

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ethanpil··on CodePen 2.0
I made https://jsmess.com as one of my first vibe code projects and have been incrementally improving it over time when I have leftover tokens...

It's closest to JSFiddle but completely static, hosted on GitHub pages. No server side processing. Projects are private, saved on localstorage and can be shared via encoded URLs.

This has been a really fun way to ramp up with LLM based coding and I learned a ton, and made a tool I actually use quite often.

ethanpil··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
I'm off to the races. Thank you.
ethanpil··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Are you using stock OMP or do you have any additional prompts you can share. This looks really promising to me, want to study/learn/copy/steal.... :)

Anything you can share would be useful to me.

ethanpil··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Can you elaborate on running them "in conjunction"... are you running the same query on multiple models and then using a third model to judge or make consensus? or am I misunderstanding completely. I'd like to understand how these small models "run together"
ethanpil··on Show HN: One More Letter
I opened the tab in the background and when i got around to it later somehow i lost the game.... i think you need an official "start" button to prevent this.
ethanpil··on All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Another recent discovery of mine in this genre: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881881
ethanpil··on Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems
very cool thanks for sharing.
ethanpil··on OS9Map
Wow. As a comparison, I just opened a new Google Maps tab in Chrome. According to the Chrome Task Manager, the tab alone uses 433mb RAM and 34mb GPU memory footprint after first load.
ethanpil··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
I'd like to study your setup. Would you be willing to share? Perhaps a github repo of your 5 extensions or even a pastebin if you would be so inclined. I would be grateful to learn more about this by studying from your success...
ethanpil··on Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is *deeply* wrong
Another hot take from him in 2018 is "Many people I respect here, lately identified Facebook as the root of all the evil. I want to start this thread about why I disagree..."

https://x.com/antirez/status/965554123860008960

ethanpil··on Claude Fable 5
Per the "Availability" section of the page, seems like should come back to all plans eventually...

* From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost.

* On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, we’ll extend the included window.

* After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can.

ethanpil··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
What's Google's business case for releasing open models? Don't get me wrong, I am grateful and appreciative of these releases. I'm trying to understand how it fits into their bigger picture as a for profit company? Are they not helping competitors build on the novel technology they have developed?

Is it simply goodwill and/or marketing? Or am I missing something strategic?

ethanpil··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
Anyone here remember the early days of WhatsApp, pre-Facebook, when it required an annual subscription fee of $1?
ethanpil··on Claude Opus 4.8
Why not state that?
ethanpil··on Claude Opus 4.8
The table comparing eval scores shows the following:

Agentic Terminal Coding (Terminal-Bench 2.1) Opus 4.8 74.6% GPT 5.5 78.2%

Then, when you scroll all the way down to the bottom Footnotes section it says

"Terminal-Bench 2.1: We reported scores for all models using the Terminus-2 public harness. GPT-5.5’s reported score with the Codex CLI harness is 83.4%."

ethanpil··on Qwen 3.7 Preview
Can you share the GGUF for this specific success story? I'd like to try it for myself.
ethanpil··on I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

  >  It took two initial prompts and a few tiny follow-ups. GPT-5.2 running in Codex CLI ran uninterrupted for several hours, burned through 1,464,295 input tokens, 97,122,176 cached input tokens and 625,563 output tokens and ended up producing 9,000 lines of fully tested JavaScript across 43 commits.
Using a random LLM cost calculator, this amounts to $28.31... pretty reasonable for functional output.

I am now confident that within 5-10 years (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions are going to drop out enormously.

Source: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=1464295&cit=97123000&ot=62556...

ethanpil··on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server
What's the use case for this?
ethanpil··on Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
Reading this document I can now confirm 100% that at least 1 AI has Em Dashes embedded within its soul.
ethanpil··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
Another interesting approach IMHO is https://github.com/gnat/surreal
ethanpil··on Nvidia DGX Spark and Apple Mac Studio = 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0
How do you know this happened? I thought it was an abandoned project until I saw this post. I've been diligently checking weekly for new releases but nothing for almost a year...
ethanpil··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Had a similar issue - wanted to get all the files from the response without too much work, so I opened a new tab and vibe coded this in about 4 minutes. Tested it on exactly 1 case: a previous Sonnet 4.5 response, and worked well.

https://github.com/ethanpil/claude-files-creator

ethanpil··on Low Cost Mini PCs
This is wonderful i'll be using this a lot. Would be great to see a filter for Tiny vs Mini as well as CPU. AMD/Intel and i3 i7 i9, etc, maybe even generation, etc
ethanpil··on Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker
Looks like a clone or fork of the UnRaid docker interface
ethanpil··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
Why are they getting worse?
ethanpil··on Window-Switcher: Alt+(backtick) same-app window switching for Windows 10/11
You have those AHKs somewhere online? Would love to peruse them...
ethanpil··on Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
With all of these great improvements in recent months i'd love to see an updated roadmap... https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/wiki/Roadmap
ethanpil··on PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS
What would it take to get this on modern (or even last generation) phone hardware?

I bet we could do everything we want with tremendous simplicity and out of this world battery life... Probably would make a PinePhone feel like a Rolls Royce.

ethanpil··on Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
Nice. My next step: Figure out how to make a web extension 1 click button. Tab to Monolith to Joplin with a tag.
ethanpil··on Biggest airport to open by 2030 with 6 runways and 120M passenger a year
Good luck catching a layover if you are Jewish or have an Israeli stamp on your passport. Last time I checked the staff of Saudi destined airlines wouldn't even let "undesirables" on an incoming flight...
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